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on 11/1/05 8:45 PM, Mike Abrams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the real deal on all those people selling the
> grey OS software discs. Will they work in any Mac as
> some claim or is it just the machine listed on the
> disc?
Good question. I have an OS 9.1 disk from a Powerbook that will install on
any machine I've asked it to. Performa 6300. Powerbook 3400c PPC 8600,
etc.
I have an iMac OS 9.0.4 disk that will not install on anything but the
iMac
(so far as I can tell). I doubt that there is a comprehensive answer out
there, but if there is I like to know too.
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All the Best,
R.A. Cantrell
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I have a gray 10.2 disk for the 2002 iMacs that installs without complaint
on my beige G3. This is an "install" disk. I also have gray "restore"
disks for 10.1.2 and 9.2.2, labelled for the iMac, & 9.2.2 for the eMac,
that never would install anything on the G3.
However, when I look on those Restore disks using Terminal under X ("ls
-a"), I find an invisible directory on each called .images, with .dmg
files for X, 9.2.2, & apps like Appleworks, etc. (The X restore images
cover 3 disks.)
I can go into that invisible directory ("cd .images"), copy those .dmg
files to a hard drive ("cp * /[whatever the path you want]"), mount on the
desktop, & copy to my heart's content -- at least the 9.2.2 disk image,
which produces a perfectly bootable system when copied to a disk (a few
aliases are screwed up), & the apps. I haven't tried to install a 10.1.2,
since I already have a perfectly good 10.2.x.
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